Harry Potter and the Hormones

I'm supposed to be working right now. Oh well. I'm glad we started this again! I'm not reading nearly enough this summer. So, Harry Potter. I am SO excited for the seventh book. I just reread the fifth and sixth books, and enjoyed them far more than I thought I was going to. HP5 in particular, I was more impressed with than expected. Harry is not *that* annoying, and the hormones aren't *that* in your face. As we come to the seventh, though, the big question of course is whether he'll live. Mostly I say "he has to". But every once in a while I think about Don Quixote, and how the easiest way to ensure there will be no unauthorized sequels is to kill off your main character. Which leads me to the thought of black market book sharing. I had lunch with Ashni today, and we were talking about the Chinese black market. You can read such delightful books, there, as...I can't find any right now, but they have really strange fake books. What kind of career is inventing books that don't exist? Is there a skill in authoring a fake book? To whom do we attribute authorship (does it matter?) for books like the Sweet Valley twin series, that aren't actually written by a single author. Sorry this is so rambling. My brain is incredibly fuzzy at the moment. Someone with more intellectual power than I should post. Yay books!